Chromium - youtube.com/tv - Playback not working

TimoVerbrugghe · June 18, 2016 at 7:17 PM

Hi everyone!

I've recently installed LibreElec and the chromium addon. Both Flash Player & Widevine module are installed successfully and I can play both flash content as content on the netflix website.

I can also play videos on the normal YouTube website. But when I try to open a video on http://youtube.com/tv, the playback is stuck and keeps buffering forever.

The website itself loads in fine, can sign in with Google account, etc... but it's just playback that doesn't work...

Something else I need to do/change in a configuration file to get this to work?

**nickr** · June 18, 2016 at 9:29 PM Official Post

Why not use the kodi youtube addon?

TimoVerbrugghe · June 18, 2016 at 10:38 PM

Quote from nickr

Why not use the kodi youtube addon?

Well, it's not life threatening or anything ;). But I would like to cast video from my youtube apps on iOS/Android/Chrome devices to my TV and that's possible through the youtube TV website. I know there are different apps to achieve the same purpose, but they sometimes break or aren't working with every video and this would solve it ;).

**nickr** · June 18, 2016 at 11:24 PM Official Post

Its also possible with the addon, if you install kore or yatse on your android device.

TimoVerbrugghe · June 18, 2016 at 11:27 PM

Yes, I know .

But would like to enable casting also from my iPad & my Chrome devices (using the cast to addon) and that's normally possible by adding the http://youtube.com/tv website as a cast device, but for some reason, video playback isn't working on that website, while it is possible on the normal youtube website (youtube.com).

Now installing LibreElec on another machine to make sure it's machine independent issue.

**nickr** · June 19, 2016 at 12:51 AM Official Post

I'll give it a try when I finish my home networking project this afternoon.

TimoVerbrugghe · June 19, 2016 at 5:31 PM

Mmm... weird. Using openelec on my Intel NUC gives the issue (so playback stuck at buffering), but installing it on my Desktop PC, everything plays normally...
[hr]
Allright, now even regular youtube.com playback isn't working.

Could this be a GPU problem? I have a NUC DC3217BY with Intel Graphics 4000.

TimoVerbrugghe · July 31, 2016 at 3:55 PM

Quote from nickr

I'll give it a try when I finish my home networking project this afternoon.

Ey Nickr, have you been able to try this yet? I've just tried it again, but same result. Chromium addon on LibreElec hangs on http://youtube.com/tv when loading in a video...
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**nickr** · August 1, 2016 at 1:58 AM Official Post

No but I do have a working chromium on a fresh LE 7.0.2 install and now that yuo have reminded me, I will try tonight.

kobrawerde · August 2, 2016 at 5:30 PM

You can install a minimal ubuntu and google-chrome
google chrome run with the parameter
--start-maximized
and the browser works OK with LE
forum topic old ...but it works 1

TimoVerbrugghe · August 3, 2016 at 8:50 AM

Quote from kobrawerde

You can install a minimal ubuntu and google-chrome
google chrome run with the parameter
--start-maximized
and the browser works OK with LE
forum topic old ...but it works 1

Well already tried that, but I get a hodt of other problems when I do that... LibreElec is just easier in that way...
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Quote from TimoVerbrugghe

Well already tried that, but I get a hodt of other problems when I do that... LibreElec is just easier in that way...

Wow wait... That's different... Installing Ubuntu INSIDE LibreElec? I'm gonna try it out!

kobrawerde · August 3, 2016 at 6:04 PM

I installed the latest version of ubuntu: howto
........
wget http://download.openvz.org/template/precr…4-x86_64.tar.gz
mkdir -p /storage/data/ubuntu
cd /storage/data/ubuntu
tar xzf ubuntu-16.04-x86_64.tar.gz
rm ubuntu-16.04-x86_64.tar.gz
.........
mount -o bind /dev /storage/data/ubuntu/dev
mount -o bind /sys /storage/data/ubuntu/sys
mount -t proc proc-chroot /storage/data/ubuntu/proc/
mount -t devpts devpts-chroot /storage/data/ubuntu/dev/pts
.........
cp /etc/resolv.conf /storage/data/ubuntu/etc/resolv.conf
#Good thing to make an autostart file so everything is mounted at reboot
touch /storage/.config/autostart.sh
nano /storage/.config/autostart.sh

Bash

#!/bin/sh
chmod -R a+rwX /dev/snd
mount -o bind /dev /storage/data/ubuntu/dev
mount -o bind /sys /storage/data/ubuntu/sys
mount -t proc proc-chroot /storage/data/ubuntu/proc/
mount -t devpts devpts-chroot /storage/data/ubuntu/dev/pts

Ctrl-x, Y, enter

#Giving rights to the executable
chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh
dos2unix /storage/.config/autostart.sh

..........
#Chroot into ubuntu
/storage/data/ubuntu/usr/sbin/chroot /storage/data/ubuntu/ /bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get install nano
#Enable use of add-apt-repository and other nice stuff
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties
#Need user for non-root only programs like steam
#add the user "retro" with password "console"
adduser --quiet --disabled-password -shell /bin/bash --home /home/retro --gecos "User" retro; echo -e "console\nconsole" | passwd retro
...................
#Grant Root Privileges to the User
visudo

Find the following code:
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

#granting root privileges to the user "retro"
#Add the following below that code:
retro ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Ctrl-x, Y, enter

#login as user retro
su retro
.......................
#Install Google-Chrome
wget -q -O - http://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb deb stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
.................
#Creating a script google-chrome for Kodi / LE (corrected / dev / shm) / If still in chroot as user then type exit twice
touch /storage/chrome.sh
nano /storage/chrome.sh
...........
#paste text

Bash

#!/bin/sh
/storage/data/ubuntu/usr/sbin/chroot /storage/data/ubuntu /bin/bash -x << EOF
chmod 1777 /dev/shm
su retro
google-chrome --start-maximized
EOF

Ctrl-x, Y, enter
#Giving rights to the executable
chmod +x /storage/chrome.sh
dos2unix /storage/chrome.sh
................
# Launching Google-Chrome LibreElec menu / remote control using entry:
#System.Exec (path to the script)
#Editing file remote.xml and entry in the global section (for key 1)

Code

<one>System.Exec(/storage/chrome.sh)</one>

# The sound of the google-chrome / Ubuntu / LE etc.
# Installation package ALSA / Chroot into ubuntu
/storage/data/ubuntu/usr/sbin/chroot /storage/data/ubuntu/ /bin/bash
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
sudo touch /etc/asound.conf
#insert the code (from your audio settings in LE) in me [hw: 1,7] for example:

Code

defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 7